They’re obviously trying to come out and get ahead of this thing a little bit, showing they’re making strides toward mending what happened. The vacating of wins, to me, is something the NCAA needs to get away from completely because I’m not sure what the purpose of that is.

When you look at the situation, a lot of people try to compare it to USC, which is not even really a comparable situation in my opinion. With Reggie Bush receiving extra benefits in excess of six figures, and here you have a couple of guys who received some tattoos and sold some memorabilia—which was theirs—totaling much less than that.

(Jim Tressel) was punished, he lost his job, and he was the main party responsible. And the other people involved, they’ve been punished as well because one guy (Terrelle Pryor) won’t be playing anymore at all the others are going to miss half of their season. So yeah, I feel that’s enough.

The biggest problem I’ve always had with the NCAA and their punishments is they punish the university and they punish the other players who were not at fault at all with the bans and the scholarship reductions. But whereas in this circumstance, you’re able to punish the guys who committed the rules infractions, so in my opinion, that should be more than enough.

At USC, Reggie Bush and Pete Carroll were already gone, and they had no recourse with those guys. But if the people are there, they should be punished accordingly, that’s my opinion on it. Once they’re gone, it’s tough and somebody’s got to take the sword, and generally it’s the university and the people who have no fault of their own who have to suffer the repercussions.